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Don’t Miss This NIH Funding Opp Especially for Early Career Researchers

By July 22, 2010December 5th, 2023Awareness

Two new federal grant programs could be great sources of funding for neurofibromatosis researchers … and one is especially for those early in their scientific career. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2011New Innovator Awards  support exceptionally creative scientists who take highly innovative, potentially high-impact approaches to major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research.   New Innovator Awards provide up to $1.5 million in direct costs over 5 years and are for early stage investigators (those who have not received an NIH R01 or similar grant and are within 10 years of completing their terminal research degree or medical residency). The deadline for submitting New Innovator Award applications is September 20, 2010. See the instructions in the RFA (RFA-RM-10-009) and http://commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator for more information. Send questions to newinnovator@nih.gov. Also available now and open to researchers at ANY stage in their career are NIH 2011 Pioneer Awards provide up to $2.5 million in direct costs over 5 years.   The deadline for submitting Pioneer Award applications is September 13, 2010. See the instructions in the RFA (RFA-RM-10-008) and http://commonfund.nih.gov/pioneer for more information. Send questions to pioneer@nih.gov.
NIH expects to make at least 7 Pioneer Awards and at least 33 New Innovator Awards in summer 2011.

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